[ale] apt-get ques for Debian users

[James Sumners]

Packages are usually held back because they have new dependencies. You could
either a) `apt-get install package_name`, b) `apt-get dist-upgrade`, or c) use
something like Synaptic to do a "smart upgrade" (basically does dist-upgrade for
you). If you go with option A you will be able to see what the new dependencies
are and make decisions from there.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 14:32:18 -0500
Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

> I run Debian (Mepis install, basically Debian Testing/Unstable) on my laptop, 
> and I have been using apt-get quite happily for about a month or two now.  
> However, I recently had a huge number of packages upgrade after an apt-get 
> upgrade (I'm assuming because of the new Debian 3.0r4), and now I have a 
> whole big list of "packages kept back" when I do apt-get upgrade.  
> 
> What does this mean, and why are they being held back?  They look to be mostly
> updated KDE packages.  Should I be doing apt-get dist-upgrade ?  Are they 
> being held back due to possible conflicts?
> 
> -Jay
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